Acrylic Painting for Beginners

Learn acrylic painting techniques with Artist Pascal Leo Cormier and break through your creative barriers.

Topics covered include

Color theory
Composition
Different still life, portrait and landscape techniques
New ways to think about painting
How to spark creative thinking and so much more

Materials

Acrylic paint tubes (heavy body):
- Phthalo blue (green shade)
- Cadmium yellow medium
- Cadmium red medium
- Magenta
- Raw umber
- Ivory black
- Titanium white
Paint brushes (synthetic. Brush sizes are approximate. Get long handles if possible
- 02 round brush
- 04 flat brush
- 10 flat brush
- Fan brush
- 2-inch large flat brush

Triangular painting knife
Mixing palette
A container for water to clear brushes
For first class: 8" x 10" canvas (stretched or panel)
Canvas paper pad
Masking tape
Sketch pad
Pencil, eraser, pencil sharpener

Fall term

Wednesdays, Oct. 23 to Nov. 27 (6 weeks)
6 - 8 p.m.
UNB Fredericton
Memorial Hall, 9 Bailey Drive room 26
$159 (+ HST)

Winter term

Tuesdays, Feb. 4 to March 18 (6 weeks, no class March 4)
6 - 8 p.m.
UNB Fredericton
Memorial Hall, 9 Bailey Drive room 26
$159 (+ HST)

About the instructor

Born and raised in north of New-Brunswick, Pascal Leo Cormier has been doing art for as long as he can remember. Starting with color pencil drawing and gradually transitioning to acrylic and oil painting.

Cormier has worked and studied as an artist in Moncton and Montreal for many years from where he exhibited his work internationally. He has exhibited and sold works in art galleries internationally and his paintings have been featured many times on television, in newspapers, art magazines and books.

He worked in an art supply store where he started giving art classes and he has done many presentations in schools. In the past five years he has been back in New-Brunswick with his wife and children where he is spending most of his time painting